Wear your Coronation Street socks with pride

This smashing pair of socks has been spotted by a Coronation Street fan in Canada. 

If anyone knows where we can buy these do please leave a comment below and we'll contact the vendor to see if we can get a pair to give away in a competition here on the Coronation Street Blog.

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WIN! Coronation Street art prints by David Crighton

We have two of David Crighton's Coronation Street art prints to be given away in a very special competition here on the Coronation Street Blog. 

Canadian artist David Crighton has had a 30 year love affair with Coronation Street. Now he’s created his artistic vision of Coronation Street along with other items to share with fans.   

To be in with a chance of winning one of the two Coronation Street art prints, all you have to do is answer the question below correctly and e-mail your answer to me at glenda.young@btinternet.com with ARTWORK in the subject line.  Two winners will be drawn at random from al correct entries received and announced here on the website after the closing date.

Q: How many art prints are there in the ‘Street Suite’?
The answer to this question can be found on David’s website  www.davidcrighton.com

All fans can enter from anywhere in the world. Deadline for entries is Saturday November 30th, 2013 at 12 noon.

Entries from money savings expert, Loquax and other competition entry websites will not be included.

If you're not lucky enough to be drawn out as a winner, David Crighton's art prints and products developed around "The Street"  can be purchased with a special Coronation Street Blog jolly good discount at:  http://bit.ly/1ddGLwk

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Love Coronation Street? Love gardening? Buy this!

These absolutely fantastic Coronation Street birdhouses are created by Jim Dileva in Canada, some of them using Pickled Jo (Jo Blakeley)'s Coronation Street caricatures

Check them out - and buy yourself one for Christmas at buildabirdhouse.ca.  Jim will ship these wonderful birdhouses to orders placed by fans in the UK.

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50 years of Coronation Street: the (very) unofficial story

We've already mentioned the (very) unofficial Coronation Street book that's coming out for Corrie's 50th later this year. Well, Corrie fans and blog readers, ooh I am excited... we're going to have one of these books to win in a competition right here on the blog in a couple of weeks time. 

More information on the book has come through today to say that this unofficial book will reveal scintillating Street secrets  including:

How The Street, unknown to many, was weeks away from going under during a crippling Equity strike of 1961/62.

The truth behind the regime of producer Brian (“Axeman”) Park and whether or not Thelma Barlow (Mavis Riley) resigned in protest at the killing off of Derek Wilton (played by Peter Baldwin).

How chaos and confusion attended the Street’s switchover to colour in 1969, with a trip to the Lake District for the first non-monochrome episode rendered a farce by mix-ups over both colour stock and the start date of colour transmissions.

The horrific and ultimately tragic decline of Jennifer Moss, original cast member and mainstay until 1974, who was unable to deal with her fame.

The full story behind why Tony Warren received a creator’s credit in the programme but – for many years – no financial remuneration.

The sometimes bizarre pressures on Street producers – including the one who had to pull an actress aside to ask her if she could start wearing deodorant.

Those interviewed for the book are too numerous to mention but they do include William Roache (Ken Barlow), John Finch, Daran Little, Adele Rose, Bill Kenwright, David Liddiment, Brian Park, Geoff Hinsliff (Don Brennan), John Stevenson, Alan Rothwell (David Barlow) and Carolyn Reynolds.

So, keep your eyes on the blog for a great competition coming soon to win a copy of this new Corrie book!